June 2006

  From My Perspective (80K PDF)

 Dateline: Washington (50K PDF)

• Senate passes budget bill
• Medicare pays improperly for consultations
• College cosponsors trauma briefing
• NIH examines cardiac, trauma survival
• Indiana enacts bariatric surgery legislation

   From the surgical suite to the state capitol: Fellows elected to state and local posts (130K PDF)

   Surgical Patient Education: Transformation to a system that supports full patient participation (290K PDF)

   Surgical lifestyles: Discovering life's "chapter two" after surgery (150K PDF)

   Error reduction through team leadership: Seven Principles of CRM applied to surgery (155K PDF)

   Lion Heart: Saleh Khalef (425K PDF)

   Management of complex extremity trauma (110K PDF)

   Profiles in surgery: Surgery under stress: World War II, Anzio Beachhead (380K PDF)

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• Chapter News
• NTDB^® Data Points
• Socioeconomic tips of the month
• In Compliance... with HIPAA Rules
• What surgeons should know about...
• ACOSOG Articles Published in the ACS Bulletin
• Publications on Advocacy and Health Policy Issues

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